Evolution as the Exact Opposite of Christianity

The whole “evolutionary philosophy” which grasps people today leads them to believe, often unconsciously, in a view of creation and life which is just the opposite of what Christianity teaches: simple becomes complex, savagery “evolves” to civilization, imperfect gives rise to perfect, “progress,” etc. According to Orthodoxy, the perfect falls to the imperfect (Paradise to fallen world; and even historically, the Holy Fathers note the fall of mankind in general until the coming of Christ—cf. St. Symeon the New Theologian and St. Gregory of Nyssa), and man in the last days will be much lower spiritually than in the early Church (cf. the prophecies of St. Nilus the Myrrh-gusher and St. Niphon of Constantia); incorruption and immortality precede corruption and mortality. The perfection and immortality of the coming age (heaven) are not a development or “evolution” from the present world (as Teilhard de Chardin would have it; actually, chiliasm is almost an inevitable deduction from evolution), but a radical transformation.

The whole aim of “evolutionary philosophy” is to upset this Christian outlook, based on God Who does everything as He wishes, and make instead something more “understandable” to fallen men—rationalism, humanism. That is why “evolution” was developed gradually by modern agnostic-atheistic-deistic philosophy before any “scientific” proof was ever found. The Orthodox Christian perspective (Paradise, the shortness of [time allotted to] this world, etc.) is a whole new outlook for those made stupid by modern “enlightenment” philosophy, of which evolution is a key product.